The Fair Penitent

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Lothario

fictional character, an unfeeling rake and libertine whose chief interest is seducing women. He appeared in
The Fair Penitent (1703), a tragedy in blank verse by Nicholas Rowe. Writer Samuel Richardson used “haughty, gallant, gay Lothario” as the model for the profligate Robert Lovelace in his epistolary novel
Clarissa (1747–48).